A man accused of selling a deadly dose of fentanyl to a 26-year-old Lake Elsinore resident pleaded not guilty Friday, March 18, to second-degree murder.
Everardo Martinez Rodriguez, 30, of Lake Elsinore, was arrested earlier this month following a nearly two-month-long Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.
Rodriguez was arraigned before Superior Court Judge Elaine Kiefer, who scheduled a felony settlement conference for April 18 at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta and left the defendant’s bail set at $1 million.
He’s being held at the nearby Byrd Detention Center.
According to sheriff’s Sgt. Ryan Marcuse, on Jan. 5, deputies and paramedics were called to a residence in the 29000 block of Central Avenue, near Conrad Avenue, to investigate reports of a poss
